Posted at 3:04 p.m., Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Julian Schnabel's latest film screens at HIFF tonight
Advertiser Staff
Painter-filmmaker Julian Schnabel's latest "Diving Bell and the Butterfl" — a Franco-American production — screens at the Regal Dole Cannery Cinemas at 7 p.m. tonight as part of the Louis Vuitton Hawaii Film Festival.Schnabel, who made the powerful biopic of Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas "Before Night Falls," this time turns his director's eye on Jean-Dominique Bauby, the former bon vivant editor of French Elle. In 1995, a massive stroke felled Bauby. He awoke from a coma 20 days later to find himself paralysed and unable to speak. He learned to communicate by blinking his left eye in a sort of Morse code.
The film, an adaptation of Bauby's memoir, earned Schnabel the best director prize at the Cannes Film Festival this year.
Mathieu Amalric plays Bauby, and the film also stars Emmanuelle Seigner (Roman Polanski's wife), Marie-José Croze, Anne Consigny and Patrick Chesnais.
